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GL/MW/OV December 2010 disco thread


snowstormcanuck

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Dropped down to 9 at Metro this morning but we had clouds all night, the luxury of living downwind of the lakes.

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Are you sure about that? Most of the areas outside the thumb were completely clear all night last night.

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KYIP.html

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KDTW.html

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KDET.html

I think it had more to do with the breezy conditions (which kept the atmosphere mixed) than cloud cover. Detroit City Airport got down ot 8*F from 12*F, but we were clear all night.

And as for the afternoon stratus that you guys out at Metro airport had, I recall it diminishing immediately after sunset (even observation suggest FEW-SCT conditions all night, which is still good for radiational cooling when the winds are calm).

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:huh:

Are you sure about that? Most of the areas outside the thumb were completely clear all night last night.

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KYIP.html

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KDTW.html

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KDET.html

I think it had more to do with the breezy conditions (which kept the atmosphere mixed) than cloud cover. Detroit City Airport got down ot 8*F from 12*F, but we were clear all night.

And as for the afternoon stratus that you guys out at Metro airport had, I recall it diminishing immediately after sunset (even observation suggest FEW-SCT conditions all night, which is still good for radiational cooling when the winds are calm).

Yes I am sure, and I am basing it upon KDTW's obs that had few/sct conditions through the night. Yes the winds were also a helper but the lower clouds albeit few in nature would help keep the temps up.

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The past few runs the GEM has shown a system next Monday capable of spreading a wide swath of 2-4" type snows over much of the central and southern Midwest. The GFS showed something similar on the 12z, but lost it to some extent on the new run.

Nothing all that exciting, but it's all I see in the near term beyond tomorrow's clipper.

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baroclinic_instability does a nice job of cutting us down in the NE subforum.

3 years removed, but I still feel like an old fart sometimes. In met, I guess, 3 years experience might as well be 20 in most other fields.

I think I will be heading to the threads over here more often. No offense to my central/western forum (they are quite good overall), but we don't get into much discussion beyond "this model has this, this model has that, therefore my forecast is this" with no discussion on why or what is actually happening.

Yeah, the discussion produced by CT_Blizz and Weatherwiz is great. They're budding meteorology phenoms. :lol:

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This is new, I think.

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It figures that the Canadian would be the first to catch the Roger Smith storm. I don't want to keep harping on it, but I am interested in his "celestial methodology", as you put it the other day. Hey, right now it's the only thing this part of the country has to look forward to.

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